Women 200m Breaststroke Swimming XXIV Olympic Games 1988 Seoul, South Korea - Wednesday, 21st September - Gold Medal: Silke Hörner 
Final A   time gap L Y 50m 100m 150m 1. Silke Hörner   East Germany2:26.71 WR - 23 32.88s 1:10.24 1:47:38 2. Xiaomin Huang   China2:27.49 +0.78s - 18 34.00s 1:11.41 1:49.22 3. Antoaneta Frenkeva   Bulgaria2:28.34 +1.63s - 17 33.16s 1:10.32 1:48.83 4. Tanya Bogomilova-Dangalakova   Bulgaria2:28.43 +1.72s - 24 32.46s 1:09.22 1:47.48 5. Yuliya Yuriivna Bohachova   Soviet Union2:28.54 +1.83s - 18 34.44s 1:12.44 1:49.98 6. Ingrid Lempereur   Belgium2:29.42 +2.71s - 19 34.79s 1:13.39 1:52.02 7. Allison Higson   Canada2:29.60 +2.89s - 15 32.71s 1:09.91 1:48.56 8. Manuela Dalla Valle   Italy2:29.86 +3.15s - 25 35.07s 1:12.9s 1:50.79 
World Record: Allison Higson, Canada 2:27.27  Montreal, Canada 28 May 1988 Olympic Record: Lina Kačiušytė, Soviet Union 2:29.54  Moscow, Soviet Union 23 July 1980 
Final B   time gap L Y 50m 100m 150m 9. Susanne Bornike   East Germany2:28.55   - 20 33.98s 1:11.26 1:49.77 10.Svetlana Kuzmina   Soviet Union2:30.03 +1.48s - 19 35.35s 1:13.85 1:51.93 11.Linda Moes   Netherlands2:30.83 +2.28s - 16 35.00s 1:13.00 1:51.60 12.Annalisa Nisiro   Italy2:31.19 +2.64s - 15 35.58s 1:14.21 1:52.60 13.Susan Rapp   United States2:32.90 +4.35s - 23 35.12s 1:13.73 1:52.94 14.Tracey Mcfarlane   United States2:33.46 +4.91s - 22 34.62s 1:13.37 1:53.05 15.Guylaine Cloutier   Canada2:33.55 +5.00s - 16 35.39s 1:14.47 1:53.98 16.Brigitte Becue   Belgium2:34.10 +5.55s - 16 36.59s 1:16.65 1:55.89 
 
 
      
 
The gold medal favorite was East German - Silke Hörner who was the 1986 World Champion, the 1987 European Champion, and had set two world records in the event. But in May, at the Canadian trials, Allison Higson broke Hörner's world record with 2:27.27. She was somewhat of an unknown factor as she had never beaten the East Germans head on, and was only 16th in the world in 1987. In the prelims Hörner confirmed her fitness, leading in 2:27.63, within ½-second of Higson's world mark, while Higson qualified fourth. 
In the final, the pace through 100 metres was set by Bulgarian Tanya Dangalakova, who was recovering from having a baby in June 1987, and having surgery related to it in October 1987. But then Hörner took over, winning in a world record 2:26.71, well ahead of China's Huang Xiaomin. Dangalakova could not hang on, placing fourth, also behind her teammate Antoaneta Frenkeva], but she would recover and win the 100 breast in a few days, upsetting Hörner. Higson was never a factor in this race, placing seventh.
Heat 6   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Silke Hörner   East Germany2:27.63 OR - 23 1. 33.10s 1:10.46 1:48.37 2. Allison Higson   Canada2:29.67 +2.04s - 15 4. 33.53s 1:11.35 1:50.10 3. Susanne Bornike   East Germany2:30.71 +3.08s - 20 9. 34.87s 1:12.55 1:51.54 4. Tracey Mcfarlane   United States2:32.11 +4.48s - 22 12. 34.44s 1:13.33 1:52.63 5. Susan Rapp   United States2:34.21 +6.58s - 23 15. 34.86s 1:13.24 1:52.89 6. Yoshie Nishioka   Japan2:35.81 +8.18s - 14 19. 36.13s 1:15.56 1:56.27 7. Virginie Bojaryn   France2:37.38 +9.75s - 17 22. 35.29s 1:14.49 1:55.42 8. Heike Esser   West Germany2:41.34 +13.71s - 15 34. 36.37s 1:16.19 1:57.92 
Heat 5   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Yuliya Yuriivna Bohachova   Soviet Union2:28.94 +1.31s OR - 18 2. 34.85s 1:13.04 1:51.05 2. Tanya Bogomilova-Dangalakova   Bulgaria2:29.91 +2.28s - 24 5. 33.73s 1:12.21 1:50.89 3. Xiaomin Huang   China2:30.03 +2.40s - 18 6. 33.65s 1:11.48 1:50.48 4. Linda Moes   Netherlands2:31.98 +4.35s - 16 11. 34.58s 1:13.19 1:52.60 5. Guylaine Cloutier   Canada2:34.36 +6.73s - 16 16. 34.53s 1:12.99 1:53.54 6. Kornelia Stawicka   Poland2:36.86 +9.23s - 15 21. 37.21s 1:17.02 1:56.92 7. Hiroko Nagasaki   Japan2:37.44 +9.81s - 20 23. 35.44s 1:14.94 1:55.76 8. Pia Sorensen   Denmark2:38.49 +10.86s - 21 25. 35.51s 1:14.9s 1:55.70 
Heat 4   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Antoaneta Frenkeva   Bulgaria2:29.57 +1.94s - 17 3. 33.18s 1:10.20 1:48.86 2. Ingrid Lempereur   Belgium2:30.07 +2.44s - 19 7. 34.89s 1:13.46 1:52.17 3. Manuela Dalla Valle   Italy2:30.60 +2.97s - 25 8. 35.38s 1:14.01 1:51.61 4. Svetlana Kuzmina   Soviet Union2:30.93 +3.30s - 19 10. 34.15s 1:12.33 1:51.74 5. Annalisa Nisiro   Italy2:32.77 +5.14s - 15 13. 34.84s 1:13.99 1:53.25 6. Britta Dahm   West Germany2:35.06 +7.43s - 19 17. 35.09s 1:13.96 1:54.10 7. Susannah Brownsdon   Great Britain2:36.14 +8.51s - 22 20. 35.20s 1:15.24 1:55.53 8. Pascaline Louvrier   France2:38.75 +11.12s - 16 26. 35.62s 1:15.21 1:55.84 
Heat 3   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Brigitte Becue   Belgium2:33.13 +5.50s - 16 14. 35.08s 1:14.56 1:54.33 2. Silvia Parera   Spain2:35.57 +7.94s - 19 18. 39.48s 1:15.29 1:54.98 3. Ragnheildur Runolfsdottir   Iceland2:39.10 +11.47s - 21 27. 35.28s 1:15.68 1:57.40 4. Dorota Chylakowna   Poland2:39.38 +11.75s - 21 28. 35.25s 1:15.13 1:56.79 5. Lara Hooiveld   Australia2:39.97 +12.34s - 17 30. 34.72s 1:15.49 1:57.75 6. Anamarija Petricevic   Yugoslavia2:40.80 +13.17s - 16 32. 36.57s 1:17.02 1:58.71 7. Alicia Maria Boscatto   Argentina2:45.80 +18.17s - 28 39. 37.26s 1:18.63 2:01.84 8. Hui-Ling Chen   China2:45.87 +18.24s - 17 40. 35.13s 1:16.31 2:00.32 
Heat 2   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Karen Horning   Peru2:37.84 +10.21s - 21 24. 36.86s 1:16.73 1:56.71 2. Sung-Won Park   South Korea2:39.40 +11.77s - 16 29. 36.23s 1:16.62 1:57.57 3. Nancy Arendt-Kemp   Luxembourg2:40.78 +13.15s - 19 31. 36.68s 1:17.43 1:58.92 4. Helen Frank   Great Britain2:41.12 +13.49s - 17 33. 36.74s 1:17.84 1:59.35 5. Patricia Brulhart   Switzerland2:42.82 +15.19s - 20 36. 36.58s 1:17.06 1:58.91 6. Sigrid Niehaus   Costa Rica2:45.35 +17.72s - 23 38. 36.79s 1:17.82 2:00.95 7. Kimberley Chen   Taiwan2:50.84 +23.21s - 21 41. 38.59s 1:21.61 2:05.72 -. Valentina Aracil   ArgentinaDNS   - 22 -.   
Heat 1   time gap L Y Rk 50m 100m 150m 1. Carwai Seto   Taiwan2:42.31 +14.68s - 15 35. 36.53s 1:17.45 1:59.52 2. Montserrat Hidalgo   Costa Rica2:44.72 +17.09s - 20 37. 37.33s 1:19.09 2:01.49 3. Dipika Chanmuggan   Sri Lanka2:51.60 +23.97s - 16 42. 38.37s 1:21.41 2:06.24 
 
 
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